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A. KIMBER.

MAIL POUCH DELIVERER.

No. 496,518. Patented Mey 2, 1893.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM KIMBER, OF INDIANAPOLISQINDIANA, ASSIGNOR 'OF THREE- EIGHTHS TOERNEST W., BRADFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

MAIL-POUCH DELIVERFER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,518, dated May 2,1893.

Application filed September 3| 1892. Serial No. 444,984. (No model.)

.T @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM KIMBER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-PouchDeliverers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My said invention relates to an improved construction of devices forthrowing mail pouches from or onto moving postal cars, as will first befully described and then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

` which are made a part hereof and on which sini- Y ilar letters ofreference indicate similar parts:

Figure l is a cross section through a car provided with my improvedthrowing apparatus, showing the stationary portion along-side the trackin side elevation, and Fig. 2, a perspective View of the box andthrowing device therein separately. v

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent a box or receptacle, Ba throwing apron therein, C a pivoted trip lever, and D a stationarystrike or arm. Y

The box, A, is of a size adapted to receive a mail pouch, and may besecured rigidly to the under side of the postal car at or near its edge,as shown in Fig'l, or may be located in ,any other convenient place onthe car, when used as a portion of an apparatus for throwing the pouchfrom the car; and when used as a portion of an apparatus for throwingthe pouch onto the car it may be located on a post, platform or anyother suitable support provided in the proper position alongside thetrack. Vhen located as shown in Fig. l, communication is had therewiththrough a trap door in the floor of the car.

The apron, B, is preferably of flexible material, such as canvas orleather, and is of a width substantially equal to the length of the box,A. Its lower end is tacked or otherwise secured to the front edge of thebottom thereof. Its other end is connected by means of a cord, b, with aspring, B', attached to the car framework above said box, preferablynear the top of the car. Said spring is arranged to normally draw theapron upward to, and hold it in, the position indicated by the dottedline in Fig. 1. Said cord preferably passes over a sheave, b', at therear side of the box, and under a sheave, b2, at its front side, so thatit may` lie close to the wall of the car in which position the spring ispreferably located. It is also provided with a knot or enlarged part,b3, thereon at that point where it will engage with a notch in the triplever, C, and hold said spring distended to allow said apron to liesubstantially in that position indicated by whole lines.

The trip-lever, C, is of substantially the form shown, pivoted near itscenter, with one end extending out through a long openingiu the side ofthe car, and the other end extending in along-side the vertical portionof the cord, b. Its inner end is provided with a notch on each sidethereof adapted to receive said cord, but not sufficiently large topermit the knotor enlarged part, b3, thereon to pass through.

The strike, D, is any convenient form of arm mounted on a postalong-side the track in position to contact with the lever, C, and turnit upon its pivot as the car passes.

The operation of my said invention is as follows: it being desired touse the device,

the cord, b, is pulled down until the part, b3, thereon ymay be engagedbeneath the notch on the proper side of the lever, C, which will be theside toward the rear of the car. The mail pouch is then dropped intosaid box on top of the apron, B, and as the car passes the post, thetrip lever is struck by the arm, D, swung to one side or the other,disengaging said part, b3, from the notch in the lever and permittingthe spring to fly up and drawsaid apron quickly into the positionindicated by the dotted line, throwing the pouch thereon into areceptacle, D', located along-side the track, or, when the device isused to throw onto the car, at a convenient point thereon to receive thepouch.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new,and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A device for throwing mail pouches, consisting of a stationary box, alexible apron IOO therein secured at one end to the front edge of saidbox and at its other end to a spring, a trip lever for holding Saidapron in a relaxed position in said box, and a device for operating saidlever as the car passes a given point, substantially as set forth.

2. In a mail pouch delivering apparatus, the combination of thestationary box, A, the ilexible apron, B, connected at one end to thefront side thereof, a spring, B', located above said box, a cordconnecting said spring and the other end of said apron, a trip-lever, C,pivoted in the side of the car, an enlarged part on said cord adapted toengage with a notch in the side of said lever, the opposite end of saidlever extending` out through a Slot in the side of the car, and astationary device l0- cated in position to strike said projecting end asit passes and operate it, substantially as Set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature hereto, iu presence of twoWitnesses, at fashington, District of Columbia, this 2d day ofSeptember', 1892.

ABRAHAM KIlWIBER. fitnessesz EMMA M. GILLETT, W. J. NEWTON.

